Indian Team returned with the best-ever finish at the 45th edition of WorldSkills International Competition 2019 in Kazan, Russia on August 27 by winning 19 medals and Medallions of Excellence. India finished 13th in the overall standings several notches up from the last time when it won 11 medals and finished in the 19th position at Abu Dhabi in 2017. S Aswatha …
4th Anniversary of WORLD YOUTH SKILLS DAY: July 15 is the World Youth Skills Day and the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) for the past four years has been celebrating the day in a high profile manner ostensibly to promote Skill India initiative announced by the Prime Minister Modi. A regular to the event for the past three …
Your neighborhood carpenter, plumber, car mechanic and other technicians won’t look the same ordinary fellows any more in coming years. They will sound more like engineers, proficient problem solvers and businesslike educated guys. Chances are, you will confront a Ph D carpenter, who will change your worldview completely about skilled human capital. On the outskirts of Jaipur in the Mahindra …
The Union Cabinet yesterday approved the merger of the existing regulatory institutions in the skills space – National Council for Vocational Training (NCVT) and the National Skill Development Agency (NSDA) into the National Council for Vocational Education and Training (NCVET). The existing infrastructure and resources will be utilized for the most part. NCVET will regulate the functioning of entities engaged …
Furthering Prime Minister Modi’s bilateral visit to Japan, and seeking to deepen ties between the two friend countries, under a memorandum of cooperation signed between India and Japan, MSDE had started a Technical Training Programme (TITP) in Japan under which interns from India do their internships in Japan and thereby replicate Japan-like efficiency in our country, once they come back. …
At the second meeting of the Association of Indian Skills Universities (AISU), a body created by the Skills Universities in India, met recently to chalk out a strategy to have its representatives included in the UGC committee and other government committees to ensure that they can guide the authorities accordingly and come up with efficient norms which would help in …
